Report Tab

This tab is not a part of the Professional edition.

The Report tab provides the real time reports on global network or a specific node. It contains a wide variety of reports, including summary statistics, diagnosis statistics, protocol statistics, top 10 IP protocols, top 10 physical addresses, top 10 IP addresses, top 10 local IP addresses, top 10 remote IP addresses.

Capsa also lets you save reports in three file formats: *.html, *.pdf and *.mht. You can configure Report Settings to customize report template as well.

The Report tab contains the following parts:

Report View
Toolbar
Report Item Select

Report View

The Report View presents all report items in different tables with statistic numbers and some with bar charts. You can switch among the nodes in the Node Explorer window to get specific report to the selected node. The Report View has the following four parts.

Report Title
Report Index
Report Body
Report Footer

Report Title

The Report Title has four components:

Title: Based on your customized title (See Report Settings) and the title of the selected node in the Node Explorer window.
Company Name: Shows the name of your input company name (See Report Settings) .
Logo: An image that works as a report logo (See Report Settings) .
Time of Generation: Displays the time of generation (See Report Settings) .

Report Item

What report items are available depend on your selection in the Node Explorer window. Only available report items show in the Report Item. All the report items are listed below:

Protocols Statistics
Summary Statistics
Top 10 Remote IP Address
Top Application Protocols
Top IP Address
Top Physical Address
Diagnosis Statistics
Top Local IP Address

You can choose to enable or disable a report item, see Report Item for details. You can click any of the report items in the index to move to the detail report in the Report Body.

Report Body

The Report Body is the main part of the report. It consists of multiple tables, statistics and bar charts. Some report items contain many sub report items. With the bar charts, the report viewer can have a clear understanding of the percentage comparison. You can click the TOP link to go back to the Report Index section.

Report Footer

The Report End is at the page footer. The specified author name (See Report Settings) will be displayed here.

Toolbar

The buttons on the toolbar are listed in the following table:

Save As	Saves the report to file format: .html, .pdf and .mht (Only for Enterprise* edition).
Options	Opens Report Settings dialog box to customize reports.
Report Item Select	Opens the Report Item Select dialog box to enable or disable report items.
Refresh	Click to refresh the report.

Report Item

The Report Item dialog box lists all available report items. Only the items meaning to the selected node in the Node Explorer window display. You can check the checkbox to enable a report item, or uncheck one to make it invisible in the report.

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